What's the Difference between Great Expectations the Book and Great Expectations the Movie?
Great Expectations Book vs Movie
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Pip is an apprentice blacksmith when Mr. Jaggers, a lawyer arrives and tells him he is going to receive a large sum of money from an unknown source and he must go to London to become a gentleman. |
Finn is working with his Uncle when a Lawyer tells him that an unknown benefactor is offering him the chance to have a gallery show in New York so he can become an artist. |
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Estella is the daughter of Magwitch and Mr. Jagger's housemaid. |
She is not related to Lustig.
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Magwitch is wanted in England and plans to escape by boat. |
Lustig has some unsavory people after him and he plans to fly to Paris after meeting with Finn. |
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Magwitch is captured trying to escape and returned to prison. He dies shortly before his execution. |
Lustig is pursued by some gangsters. He manages to elude them by jumping on a train. An unknown man comes by and stabs him in the side. He dies in the train in Finn's arms.
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Estella's husband dies. |
He lives, but they get a divorce. |